...xtended, about two miles in breadth, and in length as far as the eye could reach, the green fertile valley of the Pamunkey, whose yellow waters flowed directly past the plantation, or estate, of the White House , the property of our Colonel, William H. F. Lee.
This wide verdant flat was covered with thousands of tents and storehouses, and formed the main depot of the Federal army, numbering, before the lat...